UNCW Annual Writers Week Feb. 7-11
1/11/2005 1:50:21 PM
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Jan. 11, 2005
Wilmington, N.C.—The University of North Carolina Wilmington Department of Creative Writing welcomes poet Robert Creeley as a distinguished visiting writer for the spring semester. As part of the department’s annual Writers’ Week, Creeley will give a public reading at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 10 in Kenan Auditorium. This reading received support from the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts. Admission will be $7 ($5 for senior citizens). Tickets can be reserved by calling 910/962-3500.
Creeley has received numerous awards, including the Robert Frost Medal, the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships and a Distinguished Fulbright Fellowship.
Other readings scheduled during the February 7-11 Writers’ Week include Michael Parker, author of Hello Down There, a novel which was named a notable book of the year by the New York Times; Virginia Holman, award-winning author of Rescuing Patty Hearst, a memoir of her family’s battle with her mother’s untreated schizophrenia; A. Van Jordan, winner of 2004 Whiting Award, the author of Rise and M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A; John Sullivan, who works as writer-at-large for GQ and is author of Blood Horses: Notes of A Sportswriter’s Son; Mark Wunderlich, the author of The Anchorage, which received the 1999 Lambda Literary Award; fiction writer George Singleton, author of The Half-Mammals of Dixie and These People Are Us; and Dana Sachs, whose memoir The House on Dream Street: Memoir of an American Woman in Vietnam is the 2005 Wilmington One Book-One Community selection.
Except for Robert Creeley’s reading, all Writers’ Week readings are free and open to the public. Receptions and book signings will be held after each reading. For times and locations, call 910/962-7063.
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